A Study on Environmental Pollution of Agriculture and Countermeasures under the Double Failure

Double failure is a common failure of government regulations and the market, at this time we have to rely on other forces or re-design new market rules and government controls. From pesticides, fertilizer, plastic film and aquaculture industry, the article analyzes the impact of agricultural pollution and concludes that pollution is due to the existence of a common failure in government regulations and the market. Agricultural resources are public goods which led to government's intervention failure. If agricultural production patterns don’t change, the environmental pollution will gradually accumulate. Contamination of agricultural products can not be reflected through the price system. Producers of pollution-free products can’t compensate for losses of reduced production by raising prices. At last the paper proposes solutions such as control of pesticide dose, relying on ethics and establishing pollution-freely agricultural market.